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Daniel Schorr, who became the elder statesman of public radio after decades as a feisty television broadcaster for CBS and CNN, has died. He was 93. Schorr died Friday morning after a short illness at a Washington hospital, National Public Radio announced. His last broadcast on that network aired on July 10. A working journalist for more than 60 years, the indefatigable Schorr was the last active member of Murrow's Boys, the legendary group of journalists who worked at CBS News in the 1940s and '50s under Edward R. Murrow.

After the coffee. Before getting out of wet Boston. The Skinny: After almost two weeks on the road, I'm finally heading back home Wednesday night. Just don't tell me it's raining in Los Angeles. Wednesday's headlines include NBC's plans to hype the online component to its Olympics coverage, Disney hitting pause on a pricey movie, andCNN's ratings troubles. Daily Dose: While the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn.'

Larry King back on CNN In his first CNN special since stepping down from his nightly talk show, Larry King visits a Las Vegas clinic where Alzheimer's disease is studied. He is accompanied by former President Ronald Reagan's son Ron. King's special, "Unthinkable: The Alzheimer's Epidemic," airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on CNN. It features interviews with several celebrities touched by the disease, including Maria Shriver, whose father, Sargent Shriver, had it, and actor Seth Rogen.

Contrasting the results of the first Gallup daily presidential poll , CNN and ORC International have found President Obama in possession of a 9-point lead over presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The 52%-43% split in favor of the president runs counter to Gallup's results, which placed the former Massachusetts governor in the lead with 47% to Obama's 45%. Results of a poll delving deeper into the candidates themselves also leaned in Obama's favor.

Eliot Spitzer was bounced from CNN's prime-time lineup on Wednesday, having spent less time as a TV host than he did as New York governor. CNN reshuffled its schedule to add a new program by former CNBC personality Erin Burnett, move Anderson Cooper's flagship newscast into the tough 8 p.m. time slot and eliminate Spitzer's "In the Arena" program. CNN has asked Spitzer about staying with the network as a commentator but no decision has been made, said Ken Jautz, executive vice president of CNN/US.

TIM Rutten is far too kind in his coverage of CNN's lack of reporting about Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq ("CNN Will Limp Away From the Field," April 16). CNN's news chief, Eason Jordan, opted to perpetuate the deception of a dangerous, corrupt and cruel regime just to further CNN's standing in the ratings. Rather than report the truth and risk one or two lives, they sacrificed many lives ... possibly thousands. The deception they perpetuated allowed an evil regime to continue to thrive by starving, torturing and murdering their citizens.

Re "Outfoxing Fox -- Take 6" (March 6): Last year I finally had my Howard Beale "I can't take it anymore" moment and fled CNN for the Internet. Now instead of emoting windbags (they call them anchors) and stenographers embedded with the Bush administration, I actually get incisive reporting from around the world. Like the Democratic Party that's racked up electoral defeat after defeat by trying to be Republican-lite, so will CNN keep losing viewers in pursuit of being Fox-lite. If one doesn't want to watch Fox's faux news, why watch its kinder and gentler imitator?

In a little more than a month, Larry King will leave his first-floor studio on Sunset and Cahuenga. His last regularly scheduled program on CNN will be done. A driver will shuttle King home to Beverly Hills and a new life. But don't you dare call it retirement. The radio-turned-television personality, who turns 77 on Friday, will be making four specials a year for CNN. He'll be speaking to charitable groups. He'd like to do a little stand-up, Friars Club style. (If he lands that biggest of all interviews, King knows the first question he'd ask God: "Do you have a son?

Anderson Cooper clambered to the top of a pile of rubble along a ruined Port-au-Prince street, joining the clutch of men digging fervently inside a dark crevasse. As his cameraman zoomed in on a pair of small, naked feet, the CNN anchor described the struggle to free 13-year-old Bea. The images swept the cable station's audience, in an instant, into a moment as intimate as it was epic, as unsettling as it was affirming -- a microcosm of Haiti's struggle these last three days. Could a handful of amateur rescuers, armed with a single shovel, win one skirmish against the country's sweeping devastation?

After months of speculation, Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best-known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," has finally completed talks to take over Larry King's weeknight talk show on CNN. CNN, hoping to bolster its flagging prime-time lineup, has settled on Morgan after delicate and wide-ranging negotiations that cleared numerous obstacles, from the host's visa status to his role as a judge on NBC's summer...

SATURDAY The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer GOP race: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.); world affairs: Former British prime minister Tony Blair. 3 p.m. CNN The Chris Matthews Show How former presidents help the current president; possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidential bid in 2016. (N) 5 p.m. KNBC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today Beluga whales; Today's life illustrated. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC State of the Union With Candy Crowley GOP unity, 2012 politics: Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus; the Trayvon Martin case, civility, the 2012 campaign: Bill Cosby.

With a narrowing window to stop front-runner Mitt Romney before South Carolinians cast their ballots Saturday, Newt Gingrich stole the spotlight within the first moments of Thursday night's debate - turning a question about allegations by his second wife into a scorching attack on the media. The four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination met for their 17th debate just hours after ABC aired an interview with the former House speaker's ex-wife Marianne Gingrich, who alleged that he had sought an "open marriage" while carrying on an affair with a congressional staff member who later become his third wife.

It was early Wednesday morning when Edith Pfeffer and Carolyn Tallet became late-night TV stars, charming CNN hosts, producers and viewers alike with their earnest attempt to make sense of a mathematical snafu that had left the outcome of the Iowa caucuses hanging in the balance. Pfeffer, who is chairwoman of the Clinton County Republican Central Committee, and Tallet, president of the Clinton County Republican Women's Club, talked by phone with CNN hosts Wolf Blitzer and John King as the network tried to locate the final 3% of precinct tallies that would decide the winner of Iowa's GOP presidential nominating contest.

Piers Morgan, the former tabloid editor turned CNN personality, said at an inquiry by the British government into journalism ethics that hacking into the phones of prominent personalities was not something he engaged in when he was running the Daily Mirror or working at News of the World. Testifying via video from the United States, where he hosts a low-rated nightly talk show for CNN, Morgan acknowledged that hacking into phones by the tabloids was a "widespread practice. " However, he said he had never sanctioned or practiced such behavior himself.

With a narrowing window to stop front-runner Mitt Romney before South Carolinians cast their ballots Saturday, Newt Gingrich stole the spotlight within the first moments of Thursday night's debate - turning a question about allegations by his second wife into a scorching attack on the media. The four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination met for their 17th debate just hours after ABC aired an interview with the former House speaker's ex-wife Marianne Gingrich, who alleged that he had sought an "open marriage" while carrying on an affair with a congressional staff member who later become his third wife.

Call it the gap in the Gulf. On Jan. 16, 1991, CNN earned a stunning scoop by broadcasting from Baghdad in the early hours of the U.S.-led air strike on the Iraqi capital that began that year's brief Persian Gulf War. The messengers -- anchor Bernard Shaw and reporters Peter Arnett and John Holliman -- were hunkered down perilously in their suite in the Al Rashid Hotel, at one point hiding under furniture to escape detection from Iraqi security officials.